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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-09-21
THE 0. b. CONFERENCE.
An Interesting session In the
Pleasant Flats

An interesting Session In the
Pleasant Flats.
The conference convened in Bethel
church last Wednesday, September
18th, 1887, at 2|osclock p. m, but as
the Bishop was detained, only the
standing committees did work, until
the arrival of the Bishop to organ
ize the conference
Thursday morning, September 10,
Bishop 3. b. Kephart, d. D., of To-
ledo, Iowa, was introduced to the
conference by Rev q. Warner, as
this was his first visit to this Con-
ference. He read a part of the 9TH
chap. of Matthew from revised YER
sion; announced hymn s3s in Hymns
of Sanctuary.
The Bishop made some encourage
ing remarks to the Conference.
He said there never was a time
when the progress of the church was
so fattering as at present. The
church is making rapid advance
ments.
The reports from the different
appointments show quite an en-
couraging increase in both numbers
aud finance.
The committee on devotion an
nounced that at half past seven
o'clock the Bishop would lecture
on "The Use of Learning At the
appointed hour a 4asg audience of
attentive listeners were seated with
high expectations which We're more
than met by the scholarly and yet
very simple way in which he treat
ed his subject The Bishop is a
thoroughly educated man and knows
how to use it in telling others how
to use their learning. Friday morn
ing the devotions were led by Rev.
DIR. Warner and the business of the
Conference was resumed.
The proceedings of Saturday, and
the appointments made, we were
unable to get for this issue. Quite
a number of our people attended
the Conference on Sunday. The
ministers in attendance from dis
lance, say they were never SO well
treated at any Conference meeting
as they were by the people of the
Flats.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-09-21
To Read This may save You
Trouble.

The Game law was very materi-
ally changed at the last session of
the Legislature. The bird law now
reads as follows:
sit shall be unlawful for any per-
son in any place to catch, kill or
injure, or to pursue with such in
tent, any quail or Virginia partridge
between the LIST day of December
and the 10th day of October; or
any wild turkey between the LIST
day of January and the 10Th of
September; or any rutfed grouse,
pheasant, pinnated grouse, prairie
chicken, between the LIST day of
January and the LIST day of Oct
ober, or blue winged teal, mallard
or wood.duck, or any other wild
duck, wild goose or brant, at any
time between the 1St day of April
and the LIST day of October. And
it shall be unlawful for any person
at any time to catch by seine, net
or trap any quail or Virginia pat
ridge. And it shall be unlawful
for any person, by the use of any
swivel or pivot gun or any other
than the common shoulder gun, or
by the aid of any push boat or sneak
boat used for carrying such gun, to
catch, kill, wound or destroy, or to
pursue after with such intent, upon
any of the waters, bays, rivers, mud
fats, marshes, or any cover to which
wild fowl resort within this State,
any wild goose, wild duck or brant. :"
1t is unlawful to chase deer with
dogs in this State for five years.
And they shall only be ssstill-hun-
ted from September LIST to Decem-
Der 18th.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-09-21
Catches.

1aFkeFSDuTS Seiltlnel.
Fred Grant is the Republican
nominee for Secretary of State of
New York. The purpose is of
course merely to run man because
of his father. He will be defeated.
Jim St. Clair is candidate for
Congress in the Third District and
will make things interesting for
some one about Convention time.
There is some feeling because
Foraker said he would not speak
disrespectfully of a dog. 1t must
not be expected that a man will
speak disrespectfully of his own
relations.
Mr.. Blaine has been dangerously
near the lions cage for some weeks,
but the brute's tails still UNFINISHED.
1t is safer to twist it from this side
of the water, and more liable to
make votes.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-09-21
The Weekly Register.
s.Reseni lhe InsnIt.,,


The Communication from the pen
of gentleman in Mason county,
and published in recent issue of
the Wheeling Register, has met with
= responsive chord from the Demo-
cratic press of the State. That COM
munication was full of food for re-
Fiction As the writer says, we
should forget everything except the
insult offered the President of the
United States, at Wheeling, by the
partizan managers of the G. A. R.
1t was an insult planned and in
stigated by Foraker and his crowd.
And why, because Mr.. Cleveland
was a Democrat. An insult to a
Democratic President is an insult to
the whole Democratic party of the
nation.
Here in West Virginia we have
had eur Political quarrels, even go
ing so far as a refusal to obey the
party usages, kicking out of the
caucus and refusing to support the
eaueus nominees of the Legisla-
fhre for United States Senator.
THE action of such Democrats was
a grave wrong, but we must not
carry the war in our party further.
We have too much at stake. We
must forget that we ever had such a
fight and split as that of last winter.
We must be united for the battle of
1888. We must ask no questions as
to whether this or that Democrat
was "kicker" or an "anti-kicker."
We must have but one grand object
in view, and that is to resent the
insult to a Democratic President.
"Resent the insult" must be our
battle cry The Wheeling Register,
in commenting upon the communi-
cation alluded to above, says:
"Our Point Pleasant correspond
ent brings the same story that is
coming in from other sections of
the State of a solicited Democracy.
%Lukewarm" Democrats have be-
come red-hot over the insults that
have lately been offered our honest
President. Our Point Pleasant man
tells US that Mason cOunty's first
choice for Governor is Hon. III. r.
Howard, its second choice. Hon. r.
S. Brown; if it can have neither of
these. Mason would favor Judge A.
B. Fleming, of Marion. But no
matter who is nominated, whether
"kicker" or no "kicker," if he be an
honest Democrat, they will back
him up sOldly at the polls
And the Putnam Democrat takes
up the battle-cry and putsit forcibly
in the following languages.
s'The Point Pleasant correspond
emit of the Wheeling Register, most
certainly breathes the proper spirit,
which should actuate every Demo
crat in the land; and that spirit
which alone will bring success to
our banners. The correspondent
has struck the key note when he
proposes to bridge over all differ
ences between kickers and all others
in the Democratic fold. 1t is the
only road to success. We do not
want to Ostracise the "kickers" or
anybody else who may have strayed
temporarily from the fold. But a
policy which would win them back,
into the Democratic ranks, and
keep them there, because of kind
and respectful treatment is the only
course which will perpetuate power. .
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-09-21

A school for the convicts at the
State Prison, is said to be the first
ever attempted in this country, was
opened at Trenton, New Jersey,
last week. Two we'll educated pris-
oners will act as instructors.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-09-21
SOIidify.

Charleston Star For several years
the Democratic party of this State,
being engaged in factional war
fare, opened a breach that threat
ened to disrupt the party, dropping
it into the enemy's camp. This
raised the hope in the Republican
breast of capturing West Virginia,
and made that party jubilant. But
about the time that the Republicans
wer getting ready to gather in the
discordant Democracy, the latter's
common sense and party fealty
came to its aid, and the result is a
thoroughly solicited and unterrified
Democracy. This pains our Repub-
lican friends exceedingly. They
have seen their hopes go glimmer-
ing up the spout whereon the le-
gendary woodbine twineth. And
with the loss of hope came also the
stings of modification caused by the
plainly demonstrated fact that it
could not play a winning hand even
when it was received from its adver-
sary. Loss of hope is paining the
rank and file; the stigma of stupidity
their leaders.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-09-21

Stanly's heroic march through
Africa to the relief of Emin Bey is
about to be crowned with triumph.
Messengers have reached the i'm
prisoned officer apprising him of
the approach of the relief expedi-
ton, and few more days will dis
pei the danger that has been hover
ing over the brave European for so
long.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-09-21

IF it is true, as reported, that Jay
Gould has gulped down the B. & o.
telegraph company, batteries, wires,
poles and operators on top of the
many other miscellaneous objects in
his financial NAV, he must have
wonderful digestive machinery.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-09-21

d. B. Logan, the young lawyer
who organized and headed the pos
Sc of citizens that recently wiped
out the existence of Craig Tolliver,
the noted Rowan county, kentucky,
desperate, and part of his gang,
has located in Huntington for the
practice of his profession.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-09-21

A young child of Levi Wright, of
Marion county, while playing with
a bean hull, attempted to swallow
it. The shell lodged in the infants
throat, causing its death by sutfo-
cation in few hours.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-09-21

The Republican party has resur-
rected the corpse of the dead rebel
lion. That party will take its place
in the cemetery of dead hopes, in
the same grave it re-oPened. 1t is
a fitting end of a party whose past
is strewn with decayed and neg
Iected promises.-Er.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-09-21
Bro. Charley.
wetzel Democrat.

w StLSl DeiiiOCTdI.
Bro. Charley Caldwell has been
up in Pennsylvania telling the de-
luded republicans up there why it
is that the State of West Virginia
is going republican next time. He
says the people are very tired of
bourbon rule. But they are not
half as tired of Bourbon rule as
they were of radical republican rule
when they had it. The republic
ans of this State are unwise in their
day and generation; for they new
er will succeed with politicians of
the Foraker stripe at the 'front.'
We forgive much that Bro. Charley
said on account of his former SER
vices to the democracy. He did
the republican party a heap of dew
ilment, for which he will never be
able to make amends. He was a
mighty good democrat while he
lasted, but for his own good he
didn't last quite long enough.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-09-21

Hon. Eustace Gibson comes back
at Judge MeGfnnis in a lengthy
card, in which he says many un-
pleasant and disagreeable things
about the Judge.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-09-21
A Polite New York Bank Cash.

A dispatch was received that
ticket No. 50,255 had drawn the
$4,000 prize in the August draw
ing of The Louisiana State Lottery
Company, on the 9th inst, at New
Orleans, and that one-tenth of the
ticket, representing $4,000 to the
lucky holder, had been collected
through the National Park Bank
of this city. A Ne,es reporter asked
Assistant Cashier De Baum and
he had the books examined and
replied that the tenth part of ticket
50,255, which drew the s150,000,
had been received by them from
Cranes Bank at Hornellsville, N.
Y.-Ne1o York Daily Nea1s, Aug. 80.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-09-21

Eustace Gibson, paying his re-
spects to Judge McGinnis, says:
81 desire to add that my friends
may rely upon it THAT when this
case comes on to be heard, as it will
be, / will show Ira j. McGinnis to
be dishonest and cowardly man
and brutal and insolent Judge
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-09-21

The laying of the brick has been
commenced on the now NJ. E.
Church, situated on Wand street.
IF the plan of this building is adj
hered to, this will be handsome
church when finished. Too much
praise cannot be awarded to Rev.
R. B. Ward, the Pastor, for the en-
ergetic manner in which he has
pushed this work to success.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-09-21

Nine hundred women in Iowa
own and manage farms. This is
in addition to the much larger
number that own and manage farm
ers. Woman's sphere since bustles
began TO come into fashion has been
greatly enlarged.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-09-21

Atlanta prohibitionists are be-
coming very dry. Prominent citi-
zens are taking steps to secure a
less vigorous enforcement of the
liquor law.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-09-21

The Centennial of the Constitu-
ton, held at Philadelphia last week,
was a grand affair and a decided
success.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-09-21

Hon. Roswell P. Flower has re-
turned to New York from tour of
Europe. His firm belief is that
President Cleveland is stronger
now than in 1884, and would be
elected by greatly increased ma
jority, while, on the other hand, Mr.
Blaine is weakened by having pro
voked too many antagonisms in the
State of New York.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-09-21

1t is said that discharged Repub-
lieans in Washington propose to or
ganize State associations similar to
those which fiourished in former
election campaigns, and to take hold
and worry the Democrats who hold
the places from which they were
ousted. What thrilling, patriotic
war-cry, to be sure, is the whimper,
ave lost our placesl'
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-09-21
FOR &AI,M:,,5

nSBUsHELS Good Wheat. This wheat
~ originated in the Valley of Virginia,
and is said to be a cross of Fultz and
Lancaster. L. a. Carr & Co. say its
milling qualities are fully equal to Ian
caster. 1t is bearded wheat, having
the stiff straw of the Fultz; and sown on
the same day and field and exactly such
land, yielded % bushels per acre of first
quality wheat; the Fultz yielded IS
bushels; both cut the same day 1t is
clear of all filth. P. S. COUCH,
sep.21- Arbuckle, West Va
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-09-21

The more the Democratic party
demonstrates that its mission in
life is not to shut up factories, but
make them hum right merrily. the
madden the the Republican organs
get.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-09-21

Senator Camden thinks that, with
the tariff as an issue, West Virginia
would be doubtful State. If the
Democratic party will take hold of
the tariff question courageonsly, we
should have no fear of the result
We should like to know, too, how
many voters there are in this State
who are willing to say by their
ballots that one set of men should
be taxed for the benefit of another
set; that the majority should be i'm
poverished in order that the minor
ity might be made very rich.-Kd-
nat1ha Gazette.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-09-21

Speaker Carlisle, in a late inter-
view, stated that if he consulted his
own ease and the interests of his
constituents he would not be can
didate for the Speakership again.
But he places himcelf in the hands
of his friends, and that settles it
He is II candidate.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-09-21

The Pittsburgh Dispatch has pri-
vate information from reliable Re
publicans in each of the supposed
doubtful States of Tennessee, yir-
ginia and North Carolina. In Ten
nessee, Republicans are greatly di-
vided, not knowing just what they
want, but willing to support either
Sherman or Blaine. In Virginia,
the Malone crowd is dead set against
Blaine, preferring Sherman, Hawley
or Allison, but not Blaine. 1t is adj
mitted that no Republican can be
elected unless the Solid South can
De broken, and it is admitted every
where, that if Blaine could not
carry part of the South, no Re-
publican candidate would have any
chance. The conclusion, then, is
irresistible, that it makes no differ
ence who the Republicans nominate,
the Democratic candidate will be
elected.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-09-21

The official majority against pro-
hibition in Texas was 92,354.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-09-21
WORKING GLASSES 8TENIIoM ]

pared to furnish all classes with employment at
home, the whole of the time for their spare mo-
ments. Business new, light and profitable. Persons
OF either sex easily earn from cents $500 per
evening, and proportional by devoting all
their time TO the business. Boys and girls earn
nearly as much men That All no see this may
send their address, and test the business we make
this offer. TO such are well satisfied we will
send one dollar TO pay for the trouble of wiring
Full particulars and OUTFIT free Address GEORGE
STINSoH & Co. Portland, Name.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-09-21

A Nauvoo, ILL.,, man won't to the
well in the dark to get a drink
Feeling something strike his tongue
he closed his teeth in time to catch
a snake several inches in length.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-09-21

The Illinois Supreme Court last
Tuesday affirmed the sentence of
the Chicago Anarchists, and the
bomb throwers are doomed to the
gallows. The decision will meet
with the approval of all law abid-
ing citizens. If ever men deserved
hanging it is these fellows, and the
sooner they are hanged the better
it will be for them and society.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-09-21

Miss Lizzie Dulaney, of Petrol
cum, Richie county, while at the
railroad station recently was struck
by a train and SO seriously injured
that she died two hours afterwards.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-09-21

The West Virginia NJ. E. Con
ferance meets in Parkersburg, Oct.
5, and the Baptist General Asso-
citation, on the following week,
October 13.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-09-21

The friends of Hon. R. S. Brown,
of Jackson. are booming him as
Democratic candidate for Governor.
Everybody in the State knows the
Judge; and in point of ability and
learning is the equal of any man in
the State. Should he be the nomi-
nee of the Democratic party, he
would make the campaign lively,
you can rely upon it. The Fourth
District is entitled to the nomina-
ton.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-09-21

A Company of Pittsburg oil men
is indeavoring to make arrange
ments by which it can take hold of
the played out gas wells at Wells
burg and drill them a thousand feet
deeper, in the hope of striking oil
1t is understood that the Naylor
we'll below Buffalo creek has been
secured for this purpose, and 1t is
confidently expected that operations
will be commenced shortly which
will satisfactorily demonstrate
whether or not they are within the
oil belt.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-09-21

Panhandle Neus: Our own Gen.
Golf was interviewed at Pittsburgh
the other day, and palmed off upon
an unsophisticated reporter that
old chestnut about Whist Virginia
going SRepublican next year. If
they bring Foraker over here again
and have a few more reunions, the
Democratic majority will be dou-
bled.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-09-21

When two Southern cities like
Montgomery and Birmingham com
pete for the privilege of receiving
and sustaining proposed negro
college, it is time for thoughtful
Northern Republicans to pause and
reflect over the party tenets regard
ing the alleged injustice to the race
as practiced in the South.-Er.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-09-21

After glance at the features of
the condemned Anarchists which
confront us on opening our ex-
changes, we say, let the Anarchists
hangl
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-09-21

A special to the Register We'd
nesday, from Clarksburg, states
s.that the body of Mrs. Elizabeth
Hall, the widow of the late John
Hall, was found in the woods on
the right fork of Ten Mile Creek,
suspended to "a tree to which a rope.
was attached, the other end being
around her neck. She was dead
when discovered. a coroner's jury
finds that she came to her death at
her own hands. The cause of the
suicide is unknown
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-09-21

Col. Jake Kemple, of Wheeling,
has been invited by the Republican
State Committee, of Ohio, to speak
in that State during the campaign.
Now we can bet on Ohio going
Democratic, for wherever the Col
onel makes a speech there will be
an increased Democratic vote.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-09-21

A company of gentlemen propose
to engage in the business of ship
ping fresh meat from Ronceverte,
Greenbrier county, to the city mar
kets. They viii invest s2O,0 600 in
the business, and erect slaughter
pen and suitable buildings at or
near the town, soon as suitable
location can be obtained a large
and profitable business is expected,
and other enterprises are likely to
come from it.-Er.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-09-21

The Republican papers have now
gone to work in systematic way
to abuse Mrs. Cleveland. The Re
publican organs are base enough to
do anything.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-09-21

Hon. FL r. Howard, of our city,
is being very strongly talked of in
the Democratic press of the State, as
a proper and suitable candidate for
Governor, in 1888. We feel proud
of the honors thus conferred upon
one of our able and prominent cit
liens. The people of this county
would feel honored by having Mr..
Howard as their standard bearer in
1888. He is a gentleman well
known all over the State, and has
had much to do with the organiza-
ton of the Democratic party in
West Virginia, being for many
years a member of the Democratic
State Executive Committee. He is
possessed of the ability to make a
first class Governor, and we hope to
see him nominated.
senatorsRansom publishes in the
Cleveland PlaindeaEer statement
made up from the official records
of the States showing that of the D.
67s,967 volunteer soldiers who
fought in the Union Army, l.
456, 9O7 were Democrats, 234, S47
more Democratic than Republican
soldiers fought in defense of the
Union. The average Republican
organ is Indifferent to such statis-
tics, however. 1t judges a mans
loyalty not by what he did in 81
but by the way he votes in 's7.
Never in the history of the Dem
ocratic party of West Virginia, was
the party more strongly united and
solicited than at present. The late
Wheeling outrage did the work.
Democrats may have their little
family quarrels, but they don't al
low the Republicans to profit by it.
We are always together when it
comes to voting. In 1888 the dem
ocrats will double their majority, if
not treble it.